The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-09-07

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....u .alfred the Great governed,
and Jonathan Edwards Numbered Of
Judgment to come. How many men there
have been in high political station who
would have been insufficient to stand the
test to which their moral principle was put
had it not been for wife's voice that en-
couraged them TO do right, and wife's
PRAYER that sounded louder than the
clamor of craftsmanship Why, my friends,
the right of suffrage, as we men exercise
it, seems to be feeble thing. You, a
Christian man, come up to the ballot-box
and you drop your vote. Right after you
comes libertine, or sot-the offscouring
of the street-and he drops his vote; and
his vote counteracts yours. But ii in the
quiet of home life n daughter by her
Christian demeanor, wife by her in
dustry, a mother by her faithfulness, casts
vote in the right direction, then nothing
can resist it, and the influence of that vote
will throb through the eternities.
My chief anxiety then, is not that wom-
an have other rights accorded her, but
that she, by the grace of God, rise up TO
the appreciation of the glorious rights she
already possesses. This morning | shall
only have time to speak of one grand and
all-absorbing right that every woman has,
and that is to make home happy. That
realm no one has ever disputed with her.
Men may come home at noon or at night,
and they tarry a comparatively little
while; but she all day long governs il,
beauties it, sanctifies il. II is within her
power to make it the most attractive place
ON earth. IL is the only calm harbor in
this outside world, and the business world
is long scene Of jostle and contention.
The man who has dollar struggles TO
keep il; the man who has it not struggles
to get it. Prices up, prices down,
losses, gains, Misrepresentation, goug-
ings, undersellng, buyers depre-
stating, statesmen exaggerating, tenants
seeking less rent, landlords demanding
more, gold fdgety, struggles about office,
men who are in trying TO keep in, men out
trying TO get in, slips, tuInbles, defalca-
tions, panics, eatastrophes. o woman!
thank God you have home, and that you
may be queen in IL.
Better be there than wear Victoria's cor
onet. Better be there than carry the purse of
princess. Your abode may be humble, but
SOU can, by your faith in God, and your
cheerfuness Of demeanor, gid II with
splendo-s such as an upholsterer's hand
Abe city-humble, two stories; four plain,
dnpapered rooms; undesirable neighbor-
hood; aud yet there is man here this
morning who would die on that threshold
rather than surrender 1t. Whyf
4 Is home. Whenever he thinks OF il,
ae sees angels Of God lowering around il.
The ladders of Heaven are let down to
that house. Over the child's rough crib
there are the chantings Of angels, as those
that broke over Bethlehem. IL Is home.
These children may come up after awhile,
and they may win high position, and they
may have an afiuent residence; but they
will not until their dying day forget that
aumble roof under which their father
'estsd, and their mother sang, and their
sisters played. o, II you would gather up
all tender memories, aud the lights and
: -A~A~s 80 t@@ heart all hanquetinga and
~. raternal and